REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
SPEAKS ON

THE VIBRATION
OF TRUE LOVE

January 30, 1982
World Mission Center
Translator - Bo Hi Pak

As I look at you, your faces are so beautiful. Many times when I
look at the beauty of men and women I wonder whether there was any way
that Heavenly Father could have created us better than we are. What
would make a man more handsome or a woman more beautiful? I have
imagined making the two eyes totally round, the nose square, the ears
upside down, and wondered whether that would make a person more
beautiful. But every time I come to the conclusion that no one can
improve upon the way God made men and women.

Truly each one of you is a masterpiece of God's creation. Some men
and women may wonder why they couldn't be prettier or more handsome.
But don't think that way; you are God's masterpiece. No matter what,
God worked very hard to make you just as you are. Even if someone
condemns himself as ugly, when you look at that person you can find
some special characteristic that nobody else has.

Basically, Heavenly Father has only four items to work with: eyes,
nose, mouth and ears-and furthermore, He always has to put them in the
same area. But still in that limited realm, God created an infinite
variety of faces! God uses only four items to create the human face but
no two of them are identical; each is unique. So there is an
incredible mysterious beauty among the four billion people out there.
Each face is different, although it has the same four components. I
cannot think of any better miracle. Suppose you were given the task of
taking eyes, nose, mouth and ears and combining them to come up with
four billion different faces. Could you do it?

When I consider those four billion faces, the mystery is so great
that I am filled with a feeling of awe. There is no way to avoid
feeling gratitude and awe, surprise and shock at this fact. I always
feel that it is our duty to live with confidence and pride in being a
masterpiece of God's creation.

Have you ever thought about a world that was filled with only
women, lacking men-a "no-man's land"? No matter how beautiful and
well-dressed a woman might be, if there are no men around she has no
flavor or joy in living. I am very sure of one thing: if there were no
men around, no matter how much people might pressure you to put on make
up, you wouldn't do it; there would be no incentive.

When we think about it, it would be the greatest calamity if the
world were filled with only women and no men. Or imagine another
situation: suppose there were two billion women in the world and only
one man. There would definitely be war after war among the women, all
fighting over that one man. There would be nothing but struggles,
battles, and conspiracies all focused on the one goal to occupy that
one man. Women, you don't like war, do you? But if there were only one
man, would you just sit still or engage in some kind of war? What would
be the natural thing to do? On the other hand, suppose it were an
all-men's world with only one woman. It would be the same situation.

It is a miracle and our good fortune that God distributed men and
women evenly in the world. There are enough men for the women and
enough women for the men. Suppose there was an entire country populated
only by men and another populated only by women. Eastern philosophy is
generally centered on men so everyone there looks forward to having a
baby boy. Everyone wants a son, but suppose God answered all their
wishes and gave them nothing but sons. What would happen? You
Americans, would you want a son first or do you feel it doesn't
matter? American women said sons, American men said sons, and Eastern
culture says sons. But if God answered all those prayers, what would
happen? Wise men do not pray that kind of prayer, knowing that it is
useless. People give birth, but God controls the balance; around the
world, the population of men and women is about the same. This is
another great miracle.

It is the greatest of all miracles that we are alive today. Life is
mysterious and the mysterious element is beyond man's control; somebody
else must be controlling it. Those who possess high goals and high
ideals look for some mystic or mysterious element. People want and look
for miracles. But we are eyewitnesses to the greatest miracle of all:
the four billion people living on this earth. We look at ourselves and
life today as mysterious, as a miracle. When you look at one person,
look at him or her as the source of wonder, God's creation, a miracle
of which you are an eyewitness.

Every one of you has a broadcasting station in your brain. You emit
waves all the time, but the colors of waves vary from one person to
another. The variety of these waves makes for harmony; they don't repel
each other but rather create a universal harmony. The vibrations you
impart are not narrow. In other words, there are no white vibrations
which look for only white persons. These vibrations go around the whole
world and try to embrace the world and everything that God created.
That vibration will go to the Oriental people and embrace the Orient,
then go after black people and embrace them. This vibration creates a
sense of harmony and unity.

However, in history man has been blocking and chopping off this
harmonious vibration. This has been the greatest of all human crimes.
Religions have been very narrow-minded also. Christianity sees a
limited road from which one may not deviate. Religious people accuse
each other of being heretics and much more. Nationalism is another
example. There is a Japanese way of life, a German way of life and a
Korean way of life without flexibility. People are boxing themselves
in, blocking themselves off from infinite possibility.

What kind of history does God want? He wants a history of limitless
possibility in which all vibrations go out, encircle the world and
embrace everybody. That is the way God created His history, but it is
man who has blocked history. We must discover where in the world we can
find people of true freedom, of true vibrations.

Suppose you cut off the spiritual dimension and considered
vibrations within the physical world only. Would these vibrations be
limitless? The answer is certainly no. In the world today, where can
we find people and an organization which vibrates not just in the
physical world but also in the spirit world, in the vertical universe?
Let us ask another frequently-asked question. What is the Unification
Church and who are the Moonies? What is Reverend Moon trying to
accomplish? Today we are gathered together for what is called True
Parent's birthday. Here in this room we have an Oriental man and woman
surrounded by Western people. We must find and define the meaning of
this day. An Oriental man has won the hearts of people of the West and
they joyfully come together for a celebration out of their own desire,
not out of duty. It is amazing that Reverend Moon could come to America
and somehow convince these bright and beautiful-looking young people to
follow this way of life. Deprogrammers try to pull them away, but it
doesn't work because the tie that joins us is love.

I am sure you will agree that this is an extraordinary event.
Another way of describing this scene is that an Oriental man gave out a
vibration that encompasses the Western world, the Western mind and
Western people. This is a religious phenomenon, but the amazing thing
is that it is a very unusual religious phenomenon. Even in the field
of religion this has not often occurred.

Everybody has heard about major newspapers collapsing, for example
the Washington Star and the Philadelphia Bulletin. Every
day we hear that the Daily News, the greatest tabloid paper in
New York City, is dying. Then people hear that Reverend Moon is trying
to create a new newspaper in the face of all these newspaper failures.
Those companies which are collapsing are strictly business-minded
enterprises, concerned about the destiny of the company and the
fortunes of one or a few individuals. They have no way to link their
purpose to the nation or to the world. Therefore, no ,matter how big a
company it may be, it can only grow within the realm of individual
enterprise, individual wealth and company success. Their business
philosophy is that when their enterprise or their fortunes are damaged,
they fold.

The starting point is different with me. We are not beginning a new
newspaper for any person's or any organization's glory. We are doing
this for the purpose of God, the purpose of the nation and the purpose
of the world. Therefore, hard work and sacrifice can be made in order
to achieve the higher goal.

Today we see Western civilization based on materialism. It has now
hit a stone wall. Western civilization has filed bankruptcy. A new
philosophy, a new civilization has to begin and carry on. That is
where we are. We must realize that people are facing all kinds of
bankruptcy-moral bankruptcy, business bankruptcy, family bankruptcy.
But the Unification Church has a new goal and a new motivation. We know
that the world needs help and true salvation is needed. No matter what,
we are going to move forward, overcome the difficulties and obstacles
and bring salvation to the rest of the world. That is our standard. We
are imparting the vibration to encompass this nation and other nations
around the world in order to bring about a positive change. We must be
confident and proud of our position and our standard.

We have been talking about a new beginning, based upon a different
motivation. What is the true motivation, goal and purpose of Reverend
Moon? What is the image of True Parents? True Parents are the core
vibration through which all the vibrations of the universe can be
harmonized. All creation, all people and nations and the spirit world
as well need this essential core through which they can have give and
take with the universe.

An important consideration is what kind of vibration people
impart. Are we talking about a money - gathering vibration? If money
was the goal of vibration, poor people and nations would not deal with
it. They would think it had nothing to do with them. The wealthy
nations might like it, but all the underdeveloped nations would not
want to have anything to do with such a vibration.

What about the power-craving vibration? That might be good for the
ruling class, but for the people who are oppressed, suffering and
disregarded, such a vibration of power would be hard to relate with.

Others might say that the ultimate vibration must be one of
knowledge. Knowledge is the ultimate quest, they believe. People with
high IQs might approve, but there are many more people who are not
geniuses than those who are. Most of the world would respond, "The heck
with it; go away."

Vibrations centering on money, power, or knowledge always lead to
an imbalance. One side will be high, while another will be low. So the
vibration of True Parents must be centered on true love. Many people
think Reverend Moon is a swindler, gathering young people and
brainwashing them. They think I am sitting behind a big desk pushing
buttons, moving around thousands of robots. People are saying this and
are trying to convince the rest of the world about this.

Since Reverend Moon has appeared a new chapter in the human
experience has started. Parents have started kidnapping their own
children. This could be either the most terrible incident in human
history or the most joyful and incredible event. There is no middle
ground for such a situation. And the amazing thing is that while the
parents are trying to persuade their children to listen to them the
children, even after 35 days of captivity, are singing and happy and
something fills their hearts. If I were to tell you, "Go to your
parents and stay with them," you might make a show of leaving but would
return to the Unification Church and sneak in the back door!

The real judge of all this is the spirit world. As they look at
your deeds, do they think it is right or wrong for you to stay with
Reverend Moon and commit yourself to the Unification Church? Is the
spirit world on the side of the deprogrammers or the Moonies? Is your
answer an objective one? That means I can be mighty proud of you. No
one has seen any man come from the Eastern part of the world to the
West and have this kind of impact. This is probably the first and the
last time that this will happen in America and the West.

True conscience is vibrating in the world of professors and eminent
scholars. As far as intellectual ideals are concerned, they have the
highest. In the religious world, theologians are the top thinkers
without question. Those who hold power are in the ruling class, but
even above them is the ruling class of the mind. In other words, the
intellectuals are the governing class of the rulers because they govern
their minds. That is the way society is. The amazing thing is that
while the ruling class is trying to get rid of Reverend Moon, the
people on the highest intellectual level are welcoming him with
respect. This is the academic world.

Reverend Moon has been the first to bring together the scholars of
the East and West and give them a new horizon, uniting the academic
minds. No one else has done that. The time has come when scholars are
ready to write about Reverend Moon's philosophy and movement. In the
world today a miracle is happening: the scholars discover new hope, a
new way of life, and a new philosophy that will give hope to the future
world. Those people are ready to use their pens to testify to millions
of people. They are bringing the attention of the world to a certain
focus: Reverend Moon and his way of life, his philosophy and his
movement.

In America there are evangelical meetings, individuals witnessing,
home church, and so forth. Lecture teams of our members are giving
comprehensive three-day workshops on the philosophy of Reverend Moon
around the world. They call it Unificationism. After the three
days, many people wrote their impressions of the training explaining,
"I was a communist, but listening to Unificationism, I now have a new
hope, a new ideology by which to live."

I spent several months in Germany. Scholars heard rumors of my
visit to Germany. They wanted to see me so much, but I wanted to hide
myself, wear humble-looking clothes, and go around looking like a
laborer. I was living very unassumingly, just leading a humble, average
way of live. But while I was doing this the impact of Reverend Moon was
spreading all over the world, expanding faster and faster every day.

Many scholars who study my ideology testify that I have an
intriguing, magnetic power, which pulls them to attend scholars'
meetings sponsored by Reverend Moon even if they try to stay away. A
similar thing happens to Unification members if they try to forget me
and the Unification Church.

In the business world as well, I am a puzzle. Some newspapers say,
"Reverend Moon is more than a religious leader; he is an
industrialist." They look at me and try to analyze me from the business
or enterprise point of view, but they still cannot figure me out.

Also, Rev. Moon has become a puzzle in the cultural world. After
the Tenth ICUS in Seoul, Korea, renowned scholars were impressed by
visiting the Little Angels School. I am now receiving letters from them
saying, "Rev. Moon, I have come to understand your vision by observing
your cultural activities."

A world-renowned ballerina came to Little Angels School and was
totally impressed. She asked if she could organize an Asian ballet
school at the Little Angels School.

This morning's talk almost sounds like an advertisement. But I feel
that by a heart-to-heart talk with you people whom I love so much I can
help you to understand what we are accomplishing and what we are
fulfilling.

Before we talk about the True Parents let's talk about God. The
most important qualification of God is that He is the common Parent of
all mankind. When we speak of mankind, we are speaking of millions of
different variations, types and levels of people. Being the Father for
all man kind, black, white, yellow, easterners, southerners, men,
women, this is not easy. Think about the women's world: both Eastern
and Western, women like to talk a lot. God, as their common Father, has
to listen to all their chattering. He decided that His best response to
all the talking was simply silence. If He tried to answer back all the
conversations, He would have worn out His lips a long time ago!

There are all kinds of people in the world-rich, poor,
well-educated, ignorant, tall, short, sick people, suffering people.
God must be the Father to all of them. All individuals, whether joyful
or suffering, are trying to find some communication with their common
parent, God. The Parent has to try to answer each individual and to
meet his needs so that all can be satisfied.

You are looking at me and wondering what kind of life I have
experienced. Do you think I went through my youth like you? Certainly
you know I wasn't born 62 years old! What do you think I was doing when
I was 17? Even before I was given my life's mission, I always had the
heart that I wanted to be a friend to the suffering people in my
village. When I was a boy, there was a rich, arrogant boy who always
received a hard time from me. But those who were unfortunate and
suffering were always my friends. If I heard that some household had no
money to buy groceries, I considered it an emergency and I did
everything possible to obtain some food for those people. Until I had
done that I could not sleep. I wanted to be more than a friend; I
wanted to be someone who could serve and help others. Between the ages
of 20 and 30 which is considered the prime of youth, people normally
want to dress well, and have pleasant experiences in life. But I lived
in exactly the opposite way. I never wore a new suit; I always bought
surplus clothing at thrift shops.

My hair never looked neat and attractive. I was always busy doing
my mission. In those days I spoke very little, even though I knew that
I had many valuable things to say. I determined to be silent and look
very unassuming.

During the prime time of my youth I spent every day experiencing
the most desperate, suffering situations in human life: labor camps,
miners work, begging, dock workers, farmers, coal miners. I looked at
every aspect of human life, even the world of prostitutes. I learned
why women become prostitutes and why men go to prostitutes. I studied
all the miseries of human life.

When I was a student in Tokyo, I rode on the railway looking for
the places where the most miserable people were living. Even on rainy
days I would get off the train and go and sit on the bench beside
unfortunate-looking people and make friends with them. I always
thought to myself, "What if this roan were my elder brother or my
father and he was suffering on my account, what could I do for him?"

I observed the students at my university. They were always
laughing, talking, and behaving very boisterously. I compared myself
with them and thought, "Your laughter is meaningless; it has no weight.
But through my silence and meditation, as I seek the solutions to
life's problems, mankind will find new hope in the future." I knew that
the silly gaiety of my fellow students would pass away like a puff of
smoke, but the sorrow and sadness I was sharing with the miserable
people of society would bring a new future for the world.

I want you to understand that to earn the title of True Parents is
a very difficult task. The position of True Parents exists for the sake
of mankind. To be qualified to be in this position one must be able to
satisfy all the needs of mankind. The first qualification of the True
Parents is to taste the suffering of humanity. This is how I spent my
entire youth, going to the places of poverty and misery, visiting the
homes of miners and laborers. Also, I acquainted myself with
middle-class people and upper-class people.

In a way, I was a miserable person. I was totally alone; no one
understood me or what I was trying to accomplish. Even my parents and
brothers and sisters didn't understand me. Of course, Mother is always
with me now, supporting me constantly, but even Mother doesn't know
everything I envision for the future.

Throughout my life, I have been a pioneer charting a path that
never existed before, one which no one had even thought to go before.
In order to go that way I had to fight every day a lonely battle in
tears and sweat. That path was full of difficulties by itself, but on
top of that there was persecution and discrimination. In my village,
even though I had never committed a crime, people began to wonder about
me and I could not move about freely or live my life freely.
Ordinarily, a person becomes a folk hero when he excels at all his
activities and does deeds of kindness for other people. But my scale of
thinking was far greater than just my village. I was thinking of the
nation and the world. Because of that, I was completely misunderstood.
People would laugh at me, point their fingers at me. They had no idea
what my true motivation was.

My mother was the only one who was close to understanding me; of
course, even she didn't understand everything. Sometimes I would reveal
certain things to her. Most of the time, I would go to the tombs of my
forefathers and speak to them, revealing my heart there. I could reveal
my secrets there, knowing that all my ancestors in the spirit world
were in a better position to understand what I was doing.

Once I undertook my life's mission, I encountered opposition on
every level. My village opposed me, the society opposed me, and the
nation opposed me. The most severe opposition came from established
Christianity. Ministers and elders of the churches were pointing their
fingers at me, accusing me of being a heretic, telling their
parishioners, "Don't even go near Rev. Moon; he has a demon!" My
relatives were mistreated simply because they were related to me. If I
went to a village inn or to a restaurant, I was not welcome. I did
nothing wrong and I committed no crime. All I was doing was pursuing
the highest possible goal, which they could not understand. But I
continued to lay the foundation step-by-step, in spite of all the
opposition.

Under such circumstances, winning a true friend and creating a
small organization was not easy. But the entire spirit world was always
on my side. In the early days of the Unification Church nobody bore
witness to anybody else. Members came to the Church through contact and
guidance from the spirit world. If you have visited Korea, you have
probably met our elder grandmothers in the Church. None of them came
because someone invited them; they received revelations from spirit
world directly and came on their own initiative to look for me.

My entire life can be described by one phrase: it has been a life
in the shadows. Always I have been misunderstood and persecuted. I was
the first Moonie and all of you are the contemporary Moonies. When I
look at you I envy you very much; you are so free. Compared to the way
I lived in my early days, you are literally living in the kingdom of
Heaven. If I were in your position I could accomplish so much because
you are in the optimum position to do great things. But when I see you
with no determination and up and down in your spirit, it pains my
heart.

Here in America your position is actually easier than mine. Yet
most of you are thinking of all the things you want to receive from
me. Very few are really telling me, "Father, please rest. Let me take
over your burdens." Why do I still bear this kind of burden, since I
could say that my job is now done? I carry this responsibility still
because I am in the position of True Parent and my responsibility is to
be the common parent to all. Even if some champion did come forward
saying, "Father, I will outdo you," I feel that I cannot let that
happen. As far as doing my mission of fulfilling the will of God, I
will not fall behind any man under the sun. In order to do my mission,
I have poured every ounce of energy into it from the beginning until
the present. With such a serious attitude I have persevered through the
first three 7-year courses and was able to consummate this victoriously
and announce the home church crusade. Now we are moving into the second
three 7-year courses.

My own base has been established and from that I can launch a
spiritual offensive against the evil world. I have been attacked so
many times from so many different directions. However, we are now going
to take the offensive; but the offensive position is not one of
revenge. We are going forward to bring salvation and this is the big
difference. Our enemies' goals are simple: they want to destroy the
Unification movement. But our goals are different; we want to save the
world, including our enemies.

We have a Moonie heritage and we must be proud of that heritage.
You should be proudly proclaiming your membership in the Unification
church. We must be proud of the philosophy and the way of life which we
are leading as Moonies. Maybe some of you still feel shame and fear
when you think of the world knowing you as a Moonie. But if someone on
the street is openly scornful of you as a Moonie. you should grab his
necktie and speak right in his face: "What are you saying? What do you
know about the Moonies?"

For a long time I have not spoken out plainly, but inside my heart
I have harbored an iron-willed determination: "One day, I must
vindicate the good name of God, the good name of the Unification Church
and the True Parents." This has been my internal determination burning
in my heart for my whole life. Wherever I go, I go with pride. Even
when I went to prison, I became like a father to the other men there.
When I went to the ocean, I went in the position of great strength in
order to be a father to all the sea-going people. For seven years I
went out to sea and no one else could tolerate the schedule-not the
crew, not the guests. Some guests came and could not endure even one
day. They would have to take a nap. Every morning, I would wake up the
captain so that we could leave at 3:00 a.m. Many times the captain
would fall asleep at the wheel as he drove the boat and I would have to
take over. In the entire seven years, I only had to lie down in the
cabin one time, because of a headache.

I persevered through the experience, hanging on, because I always
knew I was in the subject position, the position of True Parent and I
had to set the tradition for seamen, not only in the present, but for
all the future as well.

For three years I poured all my energy and heart into the
Unification Theological Seminary. I drove to Barry town every day or
every other day for three years. Many times I would return at night but
early the next morning I felt that I had to go back to Barrytown. I
was pouring my heart and soul into it in such a way.

There are many different conditions of Unification Church members.
There are some who say, "I am a Moonie, but I don't want to go to MFT."
Others say, "I'm a Moonie, but I don't want to do home church." But I
tell you, the conditional Moonie will not succeed.

Rev. Moon is the first ancestor of the Moonies, setting the
tradition. God has His own tradition. I came to America declaring, "I
am here to assume the responsibility of the worst problem." Since
communism is God's worst problem today, I told God I wanted to take
over that battle here in America. Also, I told God I wanted to take
over the job of revitalizing religion in America, especially
Christianity. Another terrible problem in America is the degradation of
the young people. Therefore I asked God to let me restore the morality
of the youth.

I feel that my responsibility is to bring nothing short of
resurrection to these three major headaches of God. Thousands of graves
are being dug each year to bury all the drug addicts in this country.
I am putting enormous energy into solving this terrible tragedy; every
bit of money, time and energy I can use to solve this problem, I do.

But because I have been pursuing this goal and you have been
following me, I am persecuted and condemned and so are each of you.
This must not continue. My key words to the world have been, "Wait and
see." Do you want to wait and see too, or are you fighting Moonies,
declaring war against all evils and iniquities? You should have the
strong enthusiasm to vindicate God, to carry out the heavenly will. I
am seeing so many good examples being set in the Orient. Can I expect
you here in America to do the same? The hope of America lies in you
people right here in this room and all those in the country who are
working for this Principle. You will surely inherit my tradition and
multiply it by thousands in order to give new life to America.

When you see people who are suffering, who are on the streets, who
are sick, please look at them and think of me and compare yourself to
my record of accomplishment. My entire life was spent suffering for the
sake of God and humanity. The hardest kind of labor I experienced was
digging tunnels for mining, but I mastered the work.

You must be unconditional in your commitment. It is a simple fact
that in order to move forward in our movement we need money. You must
be able to make money with your own effort. Nobody will give it to
you. With my own hands I created the foundation for this movement.
Economic problems will always be with you, but without solving economic
problems you cannot fulfill God's dispensation.

If someone abandoned me on a desert island, I would know how to
survive, even if there was nothing to eat but grass or the bark of
trees or insects. I could devise a fishing pole out of simple materials
and catch fish. I have absolute confidence that wherever I go, I can
and will survive.

My strategy is to teach all of you how to overcome difficulties and
out of those difficulties to learn how to prosper. There are two major
areas of endeavor: first, the economic activities and second, human
relationships. You get trained head-on in these two major areas. When I
look at a man for the first time, I can tell what kind of a person he
is. My major field of study has been human beings. According to a
person's expressions and behavior I can see precisely what kind of
person I am dealing with.

As Moonies, you have to be capable in these two areas. You must be
successful in economic activities and you must be able to relate well
with people. You must win people for God and lead the people. The
third skill we must master is control over the spirit world. In order
to do that you have to understand the way the spirit world works.

I have set the goal of a new tradition for America even though that
new tradition may not be acceptable to contemporary Americans. I may
be persecuted in the present day, but the time will come when America
will respect and follow this tradition.

We are getting closer to our goal, particularly with our
Washington Times project. The people of Washington, in spite of
having the reputation for skepticism and cynicism, are certain that if
Rev. Moon said he would do something, he will do it. Some people are
trembling and fearful to hear that Reverend Moon's newspaper is coming
to town. But others are happy and hopeful to see me coming.

For ten years, since I first arrived in the U. S., we have
accomplished this much under incredible persecution. Imagine what we
can accomplish in the next ten years. The sky is the limit!

When you look at the suffering people of our society, remember that
my heart longs to be a father to those people. I'm sure you are
persecuted, but remember that I have been persecuted a thousand times
more. I have been hit, thrown in jail, tortured and almost killed.
There have been violent attacks against me throughout my life. Do you
lose your strength when someone comes against you and persecutes you?
Suppose I had weakened during those early days of persecution in
Korea. Suppose I had said, "I can't do any more, God. Please leave me
alone; ask someone in America to help you." If I had said that there
would be no world-wide movement today and you would never have heard
the words "True Parents."

We are fighting all levels of iniquities. Our key words are "bold
and strong." What about each of you; are you a kitten or a baby tiger?
It is true that each of you is in the position of spiritual baby, but
the important thing is what kind of baby you are. If you are a baby
tiger then we have hope because you will grow up to become a tiger who
can climb the mountains and roar down to the villages. As a baby tiger,
you must follow the mother and father tiger. The baby tiger has to
work very hard to learn how to be a big tiger. On the other hand a
little kitten just cries and can't even get himself off the top of a
chair. Kittens love to take naps lying on pillows in the sunny spot of
the house. Ask yourself, are you a kitten or a baby tiger? As a baby
tiger, you know that you have to be able to go up to the top of the
mountain and survive even if you are thrown down into the valley.

Where does the tiger sleep? Is it on a comfortable and warm sofa or
on top of a mountain, in the limbs of a tree, or on a rock? The tiger
must live on the snow-covered mountain; that is his environment. But
the kitten's environment is in the comfortable living room. Have you
been seeking the comfortable life of a kitten? If so, you should
repent and change. At midnight, the tiger must climb up the mountain to
get to his bed. His path is cold and lonely; the sharp wind cuts
through his ears, but he walks his lonely way with dignity and
authority. Can you tell me, "Father, in order to preserve my dignity
and authority I must have a king-sized bed with an electric blanket and
a nice pillow?" That is not dignity. It's too bad I cannot sleep on the
top of a mountain; if I did that the world would think it too strange.
What I really want is to continue my tradition. I seldom sleep in the
bed I now have and often fall asleep in a chair.

Today's sermon is about vibrations. The words I am speaking right
now are vibrating all over the world and the spirit world. The entire
spirit world is connected with our way of life. Your vibration is
communicated over the entire world and you can communicate with all of
creation. What a wonderful way of life! Even when you are fund raising,
as you prepare your product, you can know that each item vibrates your
love to the world giving your message of love to others. How dramatic
that is!

The people of the secular world are pursuing their own aims. But
here we are living and working for the sake of the world and the entire
spirit world. You must think, "I am not just an average individual. I
am a somebody whose actions echo throughout the world. and the entire
world and the spirit world respond. God Himself is smiling upon me."
When you throw a stone into a pond, the waves spread out from the point
of impact all the way across the pond. Reverend Moon and the
Unification Church are throwing stones into ever-bigger ponds, lakes,
and finally the ocean. We have been making waves from the smallest to
the cosmic level. That stone is the word of God of which I have been
speaking. The time has come that whenever I say anything, even the
communists debate among themselves as to what the true meaning is.

How blessed we all are. Look at us within this room: lots of
laughter and beautiful, shining faces with the happy give and take of
joy, inspiration, excitement and enthusiasm. Compare this room with the
outside world. I'm sure that many of you only got a small amount of
sleep last night and came here very early in the morning. On your fund
raising teams you experience the worst of the severe winter weather and
many of you have suffered from the cold. But even in those kinds of
circumstances I'm sure you felt joy and determination. To eat well,
dress well and have great social status are not necessarily the
standards for happiness.

This celebration is because of Mother's and my birthdays. Some
might think that we would be sitting around, receiving many gifts and
enjoying the day in leisure. On the contrary, every celebration that
comes brings me more work than ever. This past God's Day I spoke at
midnight and by the end of that day I had given six long sermons for a
total of eighteen hours. My legs were like poles stuck in the ground;
they felt like they wouldn't move. But still I kept talking and
walking and moving around. Many people think of me with pity, thinking
that my life is miserable but I don't think I am miserable. I am a
happy person because each deed I do vibrates with love. I can send out
waves of love that will vibrate throughout the world.

The Unification Church is the church of vibration, the vibration of
true love. You did not come here for the sole purpose of singing "Happy
Birthday" to True Parents. I don't want you to come for that. I want
you to become somebody. Become a Moonie of true love vibration. From
today, as a birthday gift take back with you the vibration of true
love. You are starting to vibrate today for the sake of the world.
Those who want to become true vibrations of love, raise your hands.
Where will you give your love vibrations? Home church. Thank You.